178. The Lathe Of Kojima

Lords:

• CisHetKeyfaber
• Phone

Topics:

• Calculus ruined incremental games for me
• SFF PCs are ridiculous and hilarious
• What's the deal with HDR?
• Ode to Ice Cream by Vada Sultenfuss (from the movie My Girl)
• Metal Gear Solid 2 is the most important game of 2023

Microtopics:

• Appropriating wrestling culture.
• Idle games vs. incremental games.
• Trimps.
• Physics and calculus educators each pretending the other field doesn't exist.
• Jerk as a unit of measurement.
• Ruining a child's mathematical career by teaching them linear algebra.
• Floating point precision.
• Optimizing the area under the curve.
• What's the jerk of my progress?
• Position, speed, acceleration, jerk, jounce, hyperjerk, metajounce, binge warp, migrational spank, barflurch, dark jaunt, catastrophic snap, whipfuck, and Newton's Torment.
• A real aerodynamic phenomenon.
• Ruining the bench racers.
• The kind of people who form an online community around a game.
• The NGU IDLE speedrunning community.
• Slaying the starting area killing slimes for 90 hours.
• How big 26.8 liters is.
• Rehoming your PC.
• How many shoeboxes your PC case is equivalent to.
• A graphics card that is perpendicular to the motherboard.
• How many parakeets could fit in your PC case using modern parakeet packing algorithms.
• Making a novelty enormous soda can to use as a fake scale comparison in photos.
• Bending your hand at a weird angle.
• JEBKAC.
• The jerk of your PC case.
• Turning the gamma up in order to see a video game.
• Squashed gamuts.
• Adding more bits to describe the color.
• HDMI stratification.
• The colors that future mankind will invent.
• Being unable to use certain hex color triplets because the Pantone license expired.
• When ice cream tastes good.
• Poems written by works in progress.
• B.R.R. (Before Rocky Road)
• Not having seen My Girl but having seen the cover at Blockbuster.
• Growing up in a mortuary.
• Bragging that you know how to play the theme to Jaws on the piano.
• Nick at Nite.
• Playing with Legos with I Love Lucy in the background.
• Timeshared cable channels.
• Nickelodeon's audience being kids and Nick at Nite's audience being the elderly so the channel's average audience is middle-aged.
• The most important game of 2023.
• The core switcheroo.
• Psycho Mantis reading your memory card.
• Playing a really whiny guy who just sucks.
• Whether they've invented pausing cutscenes yet.
• Pausing a 40 minute cutscene to go make pizza rolls.
• AI heel turns.
• Metal Gear Solid 2 beating out Vampire Survivors for most important game of 2022.
• Why Hideo Kojima's dialog sounds like an American 90s movie.
• Political theory outsider art.
• The anti-Noby Noby Boy.
• A discord channel brimming with Lords.